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Airtel plans in Chennai were so poor until few days back. They were offering a paltry 30GB for ~Rs.1500+Tax.

Now they are upgraded plans overnight to match ACT and is now better than Bangalore! They have matched ACT for FUP Limit at any given price (albeit max speed of 16Mbps) but has thrown in free unlimited local and STD from Rs.1099 plan onwards.

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There has to be a limit to the apathy being shown towards the northies.
I would stick my neck out and say, that this is a plan to wedge a divide between the people of India. The AVoID cartel ought to be tried for sedition.

I kept monitoring their site after ACT upgraded FUP few weeks back. The plan didn't auto change for me. I called up the CC and they manually changed it to 90GB (Rs.1099) plan. Though they claimed it was auto-upgraded for most users. So if you are using Airtel BB in Chennai and your FUP limits have not increased call them up and get it increased.

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Lol, meant to type something else.
Download speed in regular ADSL is upto 16Mbps and via V-Fiber its about 30Mbps-40Mbps.
Upload speed in regular ADSL is upto 1Mbps and via V-Fiber its about 8-10Mbps.

Connectivity wise its rock solid. It was working even during the Chennai cyclone. Also as far as airtel BB plans are concerned these FUP limits are the best in the country after Hyderabad (and may other smaller cities in AP)

Yes, even in my area they have upgraded in few places but haven't in few others. My connection is still not upgraded to v-fiber and limited to 16 Mbps. V-Fiber speeds are from my friend's place which is nearby.

Their V-Fiber is also not full fledged fiber as in the case of ACT. They are using some kind of tech to provide enhanced ADSL. (according to my understanding)

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Yes, even in my area they have upgraded in few places but haven't in few others. My connection is still not upgraded to v-fiber and limited to 16 Mbps. V-Fiber speeds are from my friend's place which is nearby.

Their V-Fiber is also not full fledged fiber as in the case of ACT. They are using some kind of tech to provide enhanced ADSL. (according to my understanding)

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Velachery - some societies are upgraded to v-fiber. Some societies haven't been. The v-fiber speeds are from a friends place in Tiruvanmiyur. He switched from ACT to Airtel V-Fiber since ACT was down for several weeks after Vardah.

Airtel has long stopped charging for speeds and has simplified it to just data. On the flip side, they have less of an incentive to bump users up to higher speeds. I was still on 4Mbps till just a few months back

Yeah, it's just VDSL. Thats why they're calling it 'V' fiber. They do need to extend their fiber a bit. But since the last mile connectivity still uses the existing copper, on paper they should be able to roll out faster, yet they're surprisingly lax.

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Yeah, it's just VDSL. Thats why they're calling it 'V' fiber. They do need to extend their fiber a bit. But since the last mile connectivity still uses the existing copper, on paper they should be able to roll out faster, yet they're surprisingly lax.

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My parents to changed to the new V-Fiber plans. Nice Router but lousy speeds. They said 40Mbps first and then will be upgraded to 100Mbps. But so far range of 16 to 20 Mbps. We earlier had 16Mbps for a year or so.
Also do note the FUP is now data, earlier only downloads were counted for FUP. Now it includes both Up/Down. So beware of this change.

BSNL has capped after FUP speeds at 1Mbps while Airtel caps at 512Kbps. BSNL also never had a downtime in my cousins place during the storm days save 3 hours middle of the storm while his ACT was ripped off for the whole month. Our Airtel was down for 12 days. Airtel offered a waiver of part of bill also.

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Plans upgraded again. Now exactly matches ACT. But the upgrade is not yet reflecting in the my airtel app. CC says he was not able to manually upgrade my FUP. Might take couple of days. If someone got their FUP auto upgraded please drop a note here.

Incredible growth in FUP limits though. It has gone from about ~30GB to 225GB for the Rs.1,499 plan in just under 11 months.

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As far as I remember that was the case with airtel from the beginning.(BSNL also counts it) They always used to count UL as part of FUP. Only ACT and these new age Fiber players are different.
Anyways compared to what they were offering last year for the same amount of money it is a incredible growth in FUP.

As far as reliability and speed is service there is no match for them. Airtel was working during the Vardah storm in Chennai last year. ACT took almost a month to start working again. QoS matters.

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As far as I remember that was the case with airtel from the beginning.(BSNL also counts it) They always used to count UL as part of FUP. Only ACT and these new age Fiber players are different.
Anyways compared to what they were offering last year for the same amount of money it is a incredible growth in FUP.

As far as reliability and speed is service there is no match for them. Airtel was working during the Vardah storm in Chennai last year. ACT took almost a month to start working again. QoS matters.

I was using 4 Mbps 20GB unlimited plan back then, and by the time i reach the 20GB download , my total bandwidth would be around 30GB before the speed drop down to 512kbps. OR Maybe due to terrible upload speeds, i never bothered uploading anything.